Romans 1:1

so this morning i am reading Romans...i started it yesterday but i realized that i had only skimmed it and not paid much attention as we often do when reading the Bible...so i started reading it this morning and i could not get past 1:1.....actually i could not get past 1:1a....."Paul, a servant to Christ Jesus" !!!!!!! do you hear that? a SERVANT to Jesus Christ. Many times in our life we think of Jesus as our friend, or as our brother in Christ...but how many times do we honestly think of ourselves as Jesus' servant!.....I think that would change everything about our relationship with him....The other day i was reading Foster's Celebration of Discipline, a book on the spiritual disciplines, and he talks about service. He remarks how service is a way of freeing ourselves to not get our way.....WOW!....do you get the irony in that....normally when we see something or someone as free we think about their ability to get their own way...but here foster is saying that service frees us NOT to get our way.....now go back to being the servant of Jesus Christ.....just think of the freedom that, that voluntary service would bring to our lives.....If we actually submitted to him and became his servant we would be free not to get our way....how many of us are living life in which we are trapped in "our way"....it is our way that got us to this point....it is our way that actually hurts us....but in our service to Jesus Christ we are free to not suffer from our own decisions....

now all of this brings me to another point that, it is OUR choice to submit ourselves to Jesus service.....but that is for another day or maybe this afternoon....

today, you might wanna pray like i am this morning.....Jesus how can i be your servant today? what does that mean for me in class....what does that mean for me in the office and on the sidewalk.....Jesus what does being your servant mean in terms of my job interview.....in a job interview you are "supposed" to be self aggrandizing....well how can i go to this meeting and serve you....

Anyway...ttyl